News | Created 1 Feb 2012
- Final week of unique Extraordinary Stories exhibition at the WA Museum – Perth
- Start of five year partnership with the British Museum
- Exhibition is free admission
There are now only days remaining to see the world exclusive exhibition Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.
News | Created 16 Jan 2012
On February 20, this year, WA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of a very significant event. On that day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 spacecraft. On this mission, Glenn flew over Perth and the people of Perth turned on their lights to acknowledge his mission.
News | Created 10 Jan 2012
Acclaimed Performing Lines WA writer and director Sally Richardson has brought together an extraordinary artwork program to engage Western Australian Museum visitors with professional artists.
Ms Richardson said an interactive artwork will be developed over a two week period, with the final product to be a large three dimensional object that reflects the Western Australian community today.
News | Created 4 Jan 2012
The Western Australian Museum Geraldton, along with Northern Agricultural Catchments Council (NACC) and Pollinators Inc, are holding a public morning tea at the Museum on Tuesday 17 January, 2012 to celebrate the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
From 16 – 18 January 2012 the United Nations will launch International Year of Sustainable Energy for All at the World Future Energy Summit in Dubai.
News | Created 4 Jan 2012
The Western Australian Museum – Geraldton welcomed its 500,000th visitor through its doors this morning, a major milestone since its new building opened to the public in August 2001.
Mr Alexander Kaiser was the 500,000th visitor and along with daughter Nelli, son Eduard and Eduard’s girlfriend Stefanie Kapp they were delighted to be greeted warmly by Museum staff and presented with a certificate and a basket of gifts from the Museum shop.
News | Created 21 Dec 2011
The Western Australian Museum is pleased and proud to be the venue to host the Perth Festival’s new outdoor summer concert program, Festival Gardens. The newly developed grounds at the WA Museum will host 22 nights of live music, entertainment and relaxation, ideally located in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre from 10 February – 3 March 2012.
News | Created 14 Dec 2011
Dr WH (Harry) Butler CME CitWA was awarded the prestigious Lewis G Weeks Gold Medal at the APPEA conference held in Perth in 2011.
As a Fellow of the Western Australian Museum, long time supporter and the name bearer of the WA Museum’s Harry Butler Lecture Series in the Wild West, the Museum is delighted that Dr Butler’s substantial contribution to the environmental management practices of the oil and gas industry has been acknowledged in the rare presentation of this award.
News | Created 14 Dec 2011
To celebrate the first day of the summer school holidays the WA Museum’s resident reptile expert will display a live, newly described skink species in the WA Museum’s Discovery Centre, Perth on Thursday 15 December at 9.30am.
With eight new reptile and two frog species described this year 2011 has been a busy time for Dr Paul Doughty and his colleagues.
This year Dr Doughty’s research has focussed on WA’s Pilbara region which is one of the most diverse areas for reptiles in the world.
News | Created 8 Dec 2011
Climate Change: Our Future, Our Choice has been unveiled as the new temporary exhibition at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton.
The exhibition was developed by the Australian Museum and Scitech Discovery Centre in consultation with scientists and climate change experts, and has been on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney as well as Scitech in Perth.
Visitors will be taken on a journey with interactive displays and thought provoking statements encouraging people to consider the impacts of human activity on the environment and planet.
News | Created 8 Dec 2011
A stunning collection of photographs by internationally acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky will be on display at the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder from tomorrow.
Australian Minescapes is a travelling exhibition from the Western Australian Museum and features powerful images of Pilbara and Eastern Goldfields mine sites.
Burtynsky’s photographic depictions of industrial landscapes are in the collections of major museums around the world including the Museum of Modern
News | Created 23 Nov 2011
- Highly commended at national Museums Australia awards for The Young Naturalists Club
Public programs developed by WA Museum – Albany demonstrate quality of programs delivered to Great Southern region
The Western Australian Museum – Albany has been acknowledged for the quality of its public programs, receiving two highly commended awards at the Museums and Galleries National Award (MAGNAs) last week.
News | Created 21 Nov 2011
- National Award for AC/DC Australia’s Family Jewels exhibition website
- More than 30,000 people visited the website over three months
- Exhibition itself attracted 78,749 visitors to the WA Museum
- WA Museum also won Museums Australia award for Woodside Kimberley site
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day today congratulated the Western Australian Museum for winning an Australian Web Award for its exhibition website AC/DC Australia’s Family Jewels and a Museums Australia Award for its Woodside Kimberley website.
News | Created 18 Nov 2011
Imagine holding your unforgettable event right in the centre of history’s memory chambers – in one of Western Australia’s iconic Museum sites.
The Western Australian Museum has a range of first class venues available for you to stage an absolutely unique Christmas party or corporate event.
At the WA Museum – Perth, the stunning Hackett Hall Foyer with its extraordinary design and towering glass atrium offers the ideal location for a sophisticated evening or cocktail event.
News | Created 18 Nov 2011
The Western Australian Maritime Museum played host to a Spouse and Partner Program luncheon, as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) events held in Perth in late October.
The luncheon, hosted by Mr Tim Mathieson, partner to Prime Minister Gillard, was held in the WA Maritime Museum Function Centre and Balcony.
Guests were greeted by Western Australian Museum, Chief Executive Officer, Mr Alec Coles, before posing for a group photograph at the aptly named ‘Welcome Walls’.
News | Created 18 Nov 2011
The Western Australian Museum – Perth played host to the Foreign Minister’s Dinner as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) events hosted in Perth in late October.
The dinner was held in the newly refurbished Hackett Hall Gallery, recently launched as an exclusive venue hire space.
On 26 October guests were wowed with extravagant themeing, by Natural Art by Rebecca Grace, lighting design and production by OMG Events by Tony Salom and exquisite food by Heyder & Shears Exclusive Catering.
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News | Created 15 Nov 2011
- The Western Australian Museum has won the 2011 Premier’s Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management
- The successful project Exploring the Marine Biodiversity of Northern WA is a partnership between the WA Museum and Woodside Energy Ltd
- The project was also selected as the winner in the Managing Environment category
The Western Australian Museum’s Exploring the Marine Biodiversity of Northern WA project was announced as the winner of the 2011 Premier’s Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management at the State Reception Centre last night.
News | Created 15 Nov 2011
A rare species of trapdoor spider has been found by chance in the backyard of a Grass Valley home in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region.
Dr Mark Harvey, arachnid expert at the Western Australian Museum, said it was fortuitous that the unusual white head of the spider prompted the Grass Valley resident who found it to carefully capture it for identification.
“It was taken to the Department of Environment and Conservation in Northam, and later given to the Museum for identification,” Dr Harvey said.
“I nearly fell over when I saw its white head.
News | Created 14 Nov 2011
Join renowned conservationist and naturalist Dr W. H. (Harry) Butler to hear his tales of travels to remote Australia to record his legendary wildlife television series In the Wild.
Dr Butler will be talking about his adventures as part of the Western Australian Museum’s 2011 Harry Butler lecture series: In the Wild West.
One of the first of its kind, the wildlife documentary In the Wild aired from 1976–1981, continued to play into the 1990s and is now available on DVD. The series has reached an estimated 480 million people in 43 countries.
News | Created 9 Nov 2011
To mark the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney (II), the Western Australian Museum - Geraldton will present two special programs from November 16.
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said the museum would present a seminar series with some of the key figures who searched for HMAS Sydney (II) and a memory and story-sharing art project for relatives and friends of the 645 crew lost at sea.
